Good ideas, thanks.
I like more control than a wiki would do. I ran 2 wikis and had to shut done both due to exessive spamming and lack of community. Of course it proves more that I was not good at initiating them and maintaining them than they are not good.
I though of finding people who would volunteer to maintain the subforum of one distro. This would include taking care that the discussion is clean (no spammers and other bad ppl) and build some kind of a home pages for the module. Linking to other sites, emphasizing nodes etc.
BTW allowing links is in the work, I just wanted to get the site off the ground (or my HD) so to get feedback soon but
knowing the real work only starts now....
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To reduce comment spam, forums like PM and yours should consider using nofollow.
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No, they shouldn't. It doesn't prevent spamming in any sense of the word. It won't until every last site on the planet which accepts third-party content uses it — and considering the nature of email spam, not even then. rel="nofollow" was invented by Google and doesn't solve anyone's problems other than the Googlebot's. Surprise, surprise. Instead, using the facility unilaterally means you put your legitimate users on a level with Texas hold'em spammers and viagra pitchers.
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I've considered doing nofollow on PM -- specificly, for links made by anonymonk, and users with only a few XP. (Links made by users would loose their nofollow if the user gained XP.)
Just because it hasn't been implemented yet doesn't mean that nobody is considering it. While comment spam is low on PM, it is decidedly nonzero. As for the naysayers here, I've considered your argument, and think it's bunk. 1) I know Evan, who invented it, and trust him. 2) Even if it doesn't help us much, it doesn't hurt us, and does hurt comment spammers. 3) Email spam and comment spam are very different things, and shouldn't be considered the same. 4) It doesn't hurt legitimate users of the site; legitimate users get accounts and gain level 2 fairly quickly... and even if all external links were marked nofollow, I still don't think that really hurts anyone, with the possible exception of the people being linked to.
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It all looks like going in the direction of a wiki rather than a forum. Perhaps a hybrid wiki-forum would be the ideal? | [reply] |
